In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is therefore sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational facilities.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author of the context provides some information about the situation of Mason City. He maintains cleaning the Mason River would eliminate the smell of the river and due to the interests of inhabitants of the city to water sport, the city government should assign a budget for these activities. The reasons provided by the author look persuasive at the first glance, but when one delves deeper into the provided reason, his reasoning is rife with holes and assumptions that should be clarified by the author. I could not accept the statement as it is due to three reasons and I will explain now.
First of all, the writer maintained that city dwellers are interested in water sports while he did not mention any survey, study, or additional information to support his claim. Even he maintain according to the study, it is possible that the study would have some holes. For instance, it should be clear that how many people inquiry about this question. Is the survey hold according to scientific manners. Besides, it is possible that people like to do water sport on their holiday outside the city. Besides, liking water sport does not mean they can do these activities. it is possible that due to their economic situation they do not afford the expenses of water sports.
Another possibility is that they may just like to watch water sport on TV or other media not do it themselves. Another reason that provided is that the state has announced a plan to clean up the river and would be removed. It could not be necessarily correct. The author did not provide information about the origin of the smell. The smell could be from industries and factories that dump their wastewater in the river. Therefore, clean up the river would not remove the smell because the main cause of the odor remained unchanged. Also, it is just an announcement and the government may cancel it due to political issues or lack of budget.
Lastly, the author assumed that the budget of the city government is unlimited and the city does not have any financial limitations. Although this assumption may hold, the writer did not present any additional information to prove that. A possible situation is that the city government could not provide funds for this purpose unless cut down some funds in other projects in construction or health. in this situation, it may not reasonable to provide funds for the aforementioned project.
In summary, clean up the river and eliminating the smell could be helpful for the city and attract tourists. However, the writer could not provide cogent information to persuade the reader.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 443 350
No. of Characters: 2108 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.588 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.758 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.54 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.136 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.905 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.304 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 187, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'maintains'.
Suggestion: maintains
...formation to support his claim. Even he maintain according to the study, it is possible ...
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Line 2, column 502, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Two successive sentences begin with the same adverb. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...port on their holiday outside the city. Besides, liking water sport does not mean they ...
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Line 2, column 574, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... not mean they can do these activities. it is possible that due to their economic ...
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Line 4, column 400, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: In
...her projects in construction or health. in this situation, it may not reasonable t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, lastly, look, may, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, in summary, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8690744921 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61622263279 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453724604966 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 668.7 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.0029068785 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.875 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4583333333 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.20833333333 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18042788528 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0526133539675 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646271799928 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108111286271 0.128457276422 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358953840484 0.0628817314937 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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